FilmsDollsLike this

Films like Dolls.

Dolls (2002) reads as Heavy, measured, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Letter to an Angel (1994) poster
1. Letter to an Angel1994

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dolls (Kitano) (2002) poster
2. Dolls (Kitano)2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Whispering Sands (2001) poster
3. Whispering Sands2001

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Breath (2007) poster
4. Breath2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mossane (1996) poster
5. Mossane1996

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Eve's Bayou (1997) poster
6. Eve's Bayou1997

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Octobre (1993) poster
7. Octobre1993

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

A Perfect Day (2005) poster
8. A Perfect Day2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Wild Field (2008) poster
9. Wild Field2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Bow (2005) poster
10. The Bow2005

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Silent Souls (2010) poster
11. Silent Souls2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Aujourd'hui (2012) poster
12. Aujourd'hui2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Dolls’s neighbours — where are yours?

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